Mcr Warrior
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As does Falkirk.
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Trivia : places which have bus stations, but have stops which use dont use the bus station
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Andy Pacer
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I believe it is due for a new one, nearer to the Shopping Centre.
htafc
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Not all services call at Batley bus station (West Yorkshire).
National Express uses Bristol Bus Station but Megabus does not. In fact I was told that Megabus doesn't use any bus stations except London Victoria (and I guess they've no option there).
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Here in Newport Megabus stop outside the railway station and National Express the other side of the Kingsway dual carriageway from the bus stations.
Megabus use Stand 1 at Leeds bus station.
They use Shudehill Interchange in Manchester. Seldown Coach Station in Poole. Heathrow Central Bus Station. Swansea Bus Station. Glaasgow Buchanan Bus Station. Preston Bus Station. Manchester Airport Bus Station. Edinburgh Bus Station. Sunderland Interchange. Middlesborough Bus Station. Meadowhall Bus Station. Hull Bus Station. Coventry Pool Meadow Bus Station. Oxford Gloucester Green Bus Station. Portsmouth The Hard Interchange. Newcastle (Under Lyme) Bus Station. Norwich Bus Station. Bradford Interchange. Huddersfield Bus Station. Liverpool ONE Bus Station. Birmingham Airport Bus Terminal. Reading Station Interchange. Perth Bus station. Dundee Seagate Bus Station. Aberdeen Union Square Bus Station. Derby Bus Station.
This may not be a complete list. They probably don't have much choice at airports, but they do use plenty of bus and coach stations
They used to stop at an on-street stop in Leeds and overnight services still do.
They used to use the Green Line Coach station in London Victoria - they may be too big for that, now.
https://bustimes.org/stops/450030220 (Leeds)
https://bustimes.org/stops/1800SHIC0G1 (Manchester)
https://bustimes.org/stops/1280POA05817 (Poole)
https://bustimes.org/stops/490008016S (Heathrow Central)
https://bustimes.org/stops/5810WDB48071 (Swansea)
https://bustimes.org/stops/60903768 (Glasgow)
https://bustimes.org/stops/25003126 (Preston)
https://bustimes.org/stops/1800MABS0A1 (Manchester Airport)
https://bustimes.org/stops/6200600739 (Edinburgh)
https://bustimes.org/stops/4100024PARWS (Sunderland)
https://bustimes.org/stops/079073001Z (Middlesborough)
https://bustimes.org/stops/370010200 (Meadowhall)
https://bustimes.org/stops/2290YHA01586 (Hull)
https://bustimes.org/stops/43000005004 (Coventry)
https://bustimes.org/stops/34000000013 (Oxford)
https://bustimes.org/stops/2900N12917 (Norwich)
https://bustimes.org/stops/450030022 (Bradford)
https://bustimes.org/stops/450030143 (Huddersfield)
https://bustimes.org/stops/1990PH130461 (Portsmouth)
https://bustimes.org/stops/3800C510102 (Newcastle)
https://bustimes.org/stops/2800S42098F (Liverpool)
https://bustimes.org/stops/43000105511 (Birmingham Airport)
https://bustimes.org/stops/039028320003 (Reading)
https://bustimes.org/stops/64801079 (Perth)
https://bustimes.org/stops/640012256 (Dundee)
https://bustimes.org/stops/639070021 (Aberdeen)
https://bustimes.org/stops/639070021 (Derby)
OK thanks. This was what I was told by a driver. Perhaps he was just quoting the routes he knew.
61653 HTAFC
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Which services don't? I think there are a couple that only serve the bus station in one direction, but nothing that skips it entirely.
That said, I may be out of date as I've not been using the buses as much since the Arriva strikes, and the alterations to services to Wakefield.
htafc
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I'm pretty sure 283s don't nowadays...
At least, the one I was on going towards Bradford on Friday avoided the bus station.
61653 HTAFC
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I think it still serves the bus station when heading towards Dewsbury, as do the 281s.
htafc
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Right, my mistake!
61653 HTAFC
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I'm off to Dewsbury in a few minutes, so I'll be able to confirm or deny my assumption!
Bletchleyite
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It kind of has one now at the railway station, not so far from the original one, which in the days of Julian Peddle's MK Metro was used as a daytime depot and staff canteen but is now a community centre of some sort and a car park.
I have heard of that proposal, which is years old, but it's gone very quiet, I've a suspicion it's been binned on cost grounds, or at least kicked into the long grass for the foreseeable.
61653 HTAFC
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As promised, here's a photo of the departure board at Batley bus station, showing the 281/283 services towards Dewsbury listed:
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I used to work for GMPTE and think every bus service used a bus station, some of which were effectively stands on the highway, e.g. Piccadilly Gardens. There were no cross-city routes in Manchester by then but First 41 now runs Sale - Manchester - Middleton.
htafc
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Many thanks. I should really have known this as a semi-regular visitor to the bus station.
I see it is quiet as usual then...
pitdiver
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Milton Keynes has the wonderful Coachway though. I know how wonderful it is. I use to manage it
61653 HTAFC
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Almost deserted, as usual...
At least they haven't removed most of the seating, unlike at Dewsbury!
htafc
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Indeed. I've had some rather-too-long/uncomfortable waits (stood up) for 202/203s up the hill from Dewsbury, thankfully not recently.
Having said that on the rare occasion that the seats next to the bus stands are all occupied at Batley, the bars on the right hand side of your photo are not too comfortable either!
I do, however, feel we are moving somewhat away from the title of this thread!
Falcon1200
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St Ives Cambridgeshire has a small bus station, but as I discovered to my cost last year, buses heading to Cambridge (via the Busway) don't stop there, but on the road outside. The buses from Cambridge do use it, however.
SSmith2009
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Well with the Arriva 14 ceasing and First moving the 74 into St Margaret's soon they'll be two extra bays free shortly
Andy Pacer
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Indeed, although there are some stand moves planned by Leicester City Council to ease congestion, so we're told.
DaventryRabbit
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Don't think anyone has mentioned Northampton Northgate Bus Station
Quite a Few Services Start/Terminate at the Drapery Stops Nearby. NatEx go from an even more isolated set of Stops a Quite a Walk away.
Quite a Few Services Start/Terminate at the Drapery Stops Nearby. NatEx go from an even more isolated set of Stops a Quite a Walk away.
Bletchleyite
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Oddly I was just thinking of that. They built it too small, it was havoc on day one and they had to move services elsewhere. Someone even wrote a silly folk song about it.
Megabus use Newcastle Under Lyme bus station, which is a few miles from Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent ) bus station
These days it seems that some of the country services use it and some don't. Thames Travel/Oxford Bus Company to the south don't (the routes I'm familiar with, at least, do the Westgate loop); I can't remember what they did before Thames Travel took over in about 2000. I think Arriva towards Aylesbury turn at the railway station; but Stagecoach to Chipping Norton do use Gloucester Green. I'm not sure about other routes. As long as the weather is reasonable, I find St. Aldates or the High Street to be a pleasanter place to wait than the bus station anyway.
I don't know whether the OP is interested in non-UK examples, but this one is only just outside the UK: at Letterkenny, Bus Éireann from the south and east use the bus station (presumably they own it; interestingly, the building is the old County Donegal Railways station), but the Local Link buses to the rest of Donegal stop across the road (resulting in a a briefly rather crowded layby at the time of my journey, when at least three buses to different parts of the county were scheduled to leave at almost the same time).
I mentioned that (with a few other examples) in post #36.
ian1944
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Re. the converse, am I right in thinking that all routes in Middleton use the TfGM bus station? It's so grandiloquent and beyond the apparent need of the local services, I feel it's almost necessary to use it in justification.
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